Calandra

Thanks for all the messages and emails, it good to hear from people and it's also nice to know about all the snow I am missing out on at home! I've started school now, although it hardly seems like it. I have only 10 hours of classes a week and my tutors (what they call professors) usually let us out early so its barely that! There are some huge differences from school here than back at UVM. First of all my nursing class is somewhere around 250 people- and I thought my class of 65 at home was big! Also, they have a 3 year program instead of four so its strictly nursing, they don't take any electives or as many sciences as we do. God and Christianity are also brought up a lot by my ... read more

So far sooo good! I just spent a great 10 days in Alaska visiting friends from this summer and seeing what it is like without 24 hours of sunshine. I thought it would be mostly dark but actually the sun came out at about 9:30 and set around 5:00 so not too much different from home. I saw 5 moose which I absolutely love. It was WICKED WICKED cold so I didn't really spend too much time outdoors but did get out some and even though it is cold Alaska is still extremely beautiful in the winter. However Carrie told me it was literally the coldest two weeks they've had this winter with even some record lows. The mountains look even more huge covered in snow, and when the sun sets on them... just unbelievably gorgeous. ... read more